ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,376, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Retrieval system pipeline for retrieval-augmented generation" was invented by Mengqing Guo (Redmond, Wash.), Xin Zhang (Seattle), Zheng Wang (Sammamish, Wash.), Yazhe Hu (Bellevue, Wash.), Zhonghai Deng (Redmond, Wash.) and Tao Sheng (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system transforms an initial user query into a first rewritten query using a first query rewriting algorithm, executes a search of a data repository using the first rewritten query to generate a set of results, executes a chunking process o...